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Here are some handpicked titles from our New Books section. Want to include your book? Just read our Facebook Your New or Upcoming Book post. Don’t forget to include your title’s exact release date and a link.
Zeus and the Giant Iced Tea by Leopold McGinnis: “Exploring the frenetic lives of Mexican cowboys, robots, sultans, Greek gods, and convenience store clerks, this book shatters preconceived notions of poetry and instead offers a more accessible strain of literary free flow in this love letter from dear poetry to beloved fiction.” (February 2011)
Gwupygrubynudnyland by Ben Hopkins: “The 1820s, Central Europe. In the tiny, boring, pointless Kingdom of Gwupygruby-nudnyland, nothing has happened for years. But Satan is coming to Gwupygrubynudnyland. Soon the tiny nation will be the centre of the world. Soon…” (February 2011)
Pick-Up Game edited by Marc Aronson & Charles R. Smith featuring illustrations by Charles R. Smith Jr.: “Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Adam Rapp, Joseph Bruchac, and Sharon Flake reveal how it all goes down in a searing collection of short stories, in which each one picks up where the previous one ends. Characters weave in and out of narratives, perspectives change, and emotions play out for a fluid and fast-paced ode to the game.” (February 2011)